Abstract:
The intrinsic challenges in the intersection of international laws and codes of praxis with respect
to the operation of EU states’ border officials towards migrant individuals, to be specific, migrant
African youth, is particularly pathetic and is a statement about the state’s commitment and compliance
to its obligation and to the tenets of universal human rights law. This paper uses secondary
data analysis and anti-racist and anti-colonial theories to examine the currently troubling dynamics
of youth’s transnational border-crossing experiences. It concludes inter alia, that an understanding
of the thought processes of potential migrants and their resolve to reach their goals at
all cost might bring about a shift in the view of transnational migration stakeholders and scholars,
and possibly chart a new trajectory, that might engender some modifications in existing policies
for accommodation, and effective handling of the globally burgeoning cases of migrant individual.
